Bruce’s Poor Man Survival Bulletin
A Digest of Urban Survival Resources
For Independent Minded People!
ISSN 2161-5543
In This Issue:
1. Spare cash opportunities, legitimate at-home jobs
2. Moonfruit
targets US w/ Free web store sites
3. For a Good
Time – Go to these sites…
4. New Consumer
Bureau targets its first industries
5. Challenges to new
(lack of) privacy policies at Google
Thinking is
the hardest work there is, which is the probable reason why so few engage in it. --Henry Ford
Studies show
that in a crisis, eight out of
ten people will remain passive, relying on someone else to take charge. One out
of ten will panic and endanger others in the process.
And only one out of the ten will take swift, decisive action to improve their
situation. (When they do, they immediately increase their chances of survival.)
In regard to
extreme prepping (the TV show & our last issue), a reader sent this:
'Panic is what we'll
see from those remaining 99% of Americans who have failed to take measures to
protect themselves from the coming devastation.'
"I don't see that happening. What will be seen is determination.
Determination to remember who they know that prepared, determination to find
them, and determination to "take" what they need to survive. Them and
their families.
"Unless the "preparers" have enough to feed the entire area,
they will have to defend (most likely with deadly force) their preparations.
The family, friends, and neighbors will not prepare, but they will remember.
And because of the present day 'entitlement' mentality, they will expect to be
helped. And if the 'preparers' aren't willing to 'share', they will attack in
mass with whatever they can get a hold of. If need be, it will be with shovels
and pitchforks.
"To those folks that have gone on the National Geographic series 'Doomsday
Preppers', good luck. You have just painted a huge bulls eye on yourselves and
your families. It tempts me to watch it to find out if there are any resources
in my area. If that thought came to me, I'm sure it did to others too.
"Every person
helped will want to bring their family and friends, and so on and so on. If we
get the chaos that has happened in other parts of the world, the best defense
will be to look like you don't have anything. And to mount a strong enough
defense to make the attackers go to easier pickings.
What do you
think?
Winter is pruning time for shade and fruit trees and
most blooming trees and shrubs. Aim to
remove all crossing or touching branches, dead or
damaged limbs, suckers and water sprouts.
PM’s
Compendium of Useful Resources
Public
Administration education website called http://www.mpaprograms.org.
This site is a personal project of subscriber Allison that will help inform
students about which schools across the country are currently offering an MPA
program.
More Sites to
Check for Generating Spare Cash
Be a Poll
Worker - Elections take place
three to five times a year as office seekers run for races in local, state and
national elections. If you’re over 18
and a registered voter, you can earn $80-$300 to work on election day plus get
paid for training.
Contact the office for
your county’s Supervisor of Election (check the Blue government pages in
your telephone directory).
Focus Groups -
Typical earnings range
from $10 to $250 for trying a product or service and providing your
opinion. Some require participation in
person, others offer online programs.
Check this site for information:
Food Sample
Rep - Have you ever had
‘lunch’ while shopping Costco? What I
mean, of course, every weekend dozens of food samples can be tried there and at
other retailers. The folks which staff
those kiosks are called Brand Ambassadors.
Here are two sites to explore:
Find legitimate at-home-jobs at our site:
Worldwide Economic Downturn - What Is Your Plan B?
Good video to get you thinking about developing a
sideline income…
Here’s a rule to remember.
It’s NEVER as easy as you expect it to be when you’re starting out. It will
take more time and more money than you budget for it. And it requires
consistent FOCUS to get the results you’re looking for.
We’ve mentioned several
times, eBay is a good way to start an online business. Almost zero cost but it will get your feet
wet, so to speak.
The Obama
administration’s new consumer protection bureau has outlined its first targets
for tougher oversight: large debt collectors and credit reporting companies,
both of which have largely escaped federal scrutiny. The agency proposed a
draft rule to begin oversight, which it hopes to finalize by July. Director
Richard Cordray said the rule would treat debt collectors and credit reporting
agencies the same way as banks.
Moonfruit
Targets US Consumer Sellers with DIY Storefront Builder
UK firm Moonfruit is targeting U.S. consumer- and micro-sellers
with a do-it-yourself storefront builder that makes it easy to
sell online, on Facebook and on the mobile web.
http://www.auctionbytes.com/cab/abn/y12/m02/i16/s01
For a good
time (call…):
The U.S. national debt on Jan. 1, 1791, was just $75
million dollars. Today, the U.S. national debt rises by that amount about once an hour.
The Nanny
State Updates…
If you are not able to
produce "your papers", there
is a good chance that you will get thrown into prison in America. For example,
a 21-year-old college student named Samantha Zucker was recently arrested and
put in a New York City jail for 36 hours just because she could not produce any identification
for police.
It’s not
terrorism that will destroy our country but cultural and political sabotage as
we are seduced by the wine of ‘safety’ promised by Washington. --The Poor Man
"Control
oil and you control nations; control food and you control the people."
Henry
Kissinger in a recent British tabloid story on the likelihood of another war…
Mr. Kissinger then
added: "If you are an ordinary person, then you can prepare yourself for war by moving to the countryside and building a farm, but
you must take guns with you, as the hordes of starving will be roaming. Also,
even though the elite will have their safe havens and specialist shelters, they
must be just as careful during the war as the ordinary civilians, because their
shelters can still be compromised…more at:
"Of all contrivances for cheating the laboring classes of mankind, none
has been more effective than that which deludes them with paper money."
-- Daniel Webster
(1782-1852), US Senator
The Parting Thought – Another blow to online privacy?
Google's
upcoming changes to their privacy policies are causing an uproar…
Focusing on how Google
offers up your private online activities to the feds and other governments
around the world.
Sitesell.com founder Dr. Ken Evoy wrote a terse letter to Google regarding its
upcoming changes. His gripe is Google is not being clear on how its new privacy
policies affect the typical Google consumer. Therefore, Google is forcing
the consumer to accept a new contract without properly informed consent.
Google's Transparency
Report on Government Requests shows that in just a six month period in 2011 the
U.S. government made 5,950 requests covering 11,057 specific accounts. Google
complied 93% of the time
For the
tracing and recording of your activity to work, you must be logged into
Google's services. Make sure to
log-off from all your Google services if it doesn't require you to be logged-in
to use it. For example, you don't need to be logged into YouTube to watch
videos.
Set your Google services to the maximum
security available. For instance, Google's browser, Chrome, can be set to
Incognito Mode to give you a bit more privacy. Simply strike Shift-Control-N
while in Google Chrome to open a new window in Incognito Mode. Look over Google privacy tools for further directions.
Online Search
Alternatives to Google – Ixquick (https://www.ixquick.com/) is a privacy conscious search engine. It doesn't
record your IP address when you search, and it has additional privacy tools
like a proxy server to look at search results anonymously
More online
security…Stalk Yourself
Google can still be
used to help you manage your digital identity.
Go to google.com/alerts to be alerts when new information goes online
about you or your business. Use Pipl.com
to get a better handle on the information that’s already out there.
“Until the next
revolution”, the Poor Man
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